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Facing the potential of life in prison on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, Sean Combs hired a high-profile team of defense lawyers for his criminal trial in New York.With a combined 150 years of legal experience, Combs' team of lawyers have defended everyone from alleged United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione to disgraced financier Martin Shrkeli and rapper Young Thug."In looking at the team, especially on the first day of […]

(NEW YORK) -- When Svetlana Dali snuck onto a Delta flight from New York to Paris in November it was not the first time she had successfully evaded airport security measures, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in a new court filing.Two days before Dali, 57, went through security at JFK Airport and walked onto the Delta plane without a boarding pass she accessed a secure area of the departures terminal at Bradley International […]

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids targeting businesses in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, sources confirmed to ABC News.A coalition of activists had warned delivery drivers and restaurants of the planned enforcement one day prior."I have heard those reports, I've been getting them all morning. I am disturbed by them," Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters on Tuesday. "It appears that ICE is at restaurants or even in […]

Richard Heathcote/Getty Images (POLK COUNTY, Fla.) -- A Florida woman was killed by an alligator during a canoeing trip with her husband, who tried to save her during the surprise attack, officials said.The husband and wife were canoeing in about 2 1/2 feet of water at the mouth of Tiger Creek near Lake Kissimmee in Polk County on Tuesday afternoon when the boat drifted over a large alligator, according to […]

Curtis Means - Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- An online legal defense fund for alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione has surpassed $1 million as he prepares to return to court next month.The fund reached the million-dollar mark on Tuesday, which coincided with Mangione's 27th birthday.Mangione is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where his legal team said he "receives anywhere from 10 to 115 letters per day."Manhattan […]

(AUSTIN) -- Police in Texas said they are looking for a missing 9-year-old girl who hasn't been seen in over seven years whose disappearance was uncovered after the child's mother was arrested for allegedly locking her 7-year-old daughter in a closet for weeks.Virginia Marie Gonzales, 33, of Austin, was arrested on a charge of injury to a child after the 7-year-old girl was found "locked in a closet and starving" […]

Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Another Navy fighter jet sank to the bottom of the Red Sea on Tuesday following the second such mishap aboard the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in just over a week, a U.S. official told ABC News.The F/A-18 F fighter jet was attempting a nighttime landing onto the deck of the carrier when the crew was unable to stop it in […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement allegedly conducted raids targeting businesses in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.A coalition of activists had warned delivery drivers and restaurants of the planned enforcement one day prior."I have heard those reports, I've been getting them all morning. I am disturbed by them," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters Tuesday. "It appears that ICE is at restaurants or even in neighborhoods, and it doesn't look like […]

(SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, OHIO) -- A woman has been arrested after a raccoon named Chewy was found holding a meth pipe in the driver’s seat of her car in what police are calling a “strange encounter on patrol” in Ohio.The incident occurred on Monday at approximately 7:15 p.m. when Springfield Township police officer Austin Branham decided to conduct a traffic stop on South Arlington Road after identifying a vehicle whose registered […]